Google’s chief legal officer has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller for permission to disclose the number of requests for information it has received from federal agencies under the auspices of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In a corporate blog post that went up minutes ago, Google’s David Drummond published the text of a letter to Holder seeking clearance to add data on FISA requests that Google receives to its Transparency Report. Media reports suggesting that Google is among companies that give U.S. intelligence agencies access to their servers in order to gather data on American citizens are “simply untrue,” Drummond said. Google clearly knows more about this situation that has been unfolding about the National Security Agency, Prism and government surveillance programs.
